Nicholas Awortwi
Biographic Data
| ID | 637699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Awortwi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Awortwi |
| SIGNATURE | AWORTWI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals
Behind the façade of bringing services closer to people The proclaimed and hidden intentions of the government of Uganda to create many new local government districts
Creation of local government districts has become an enterprise in Uganda, with many stakeholders having diverse opinions about the government's motives. This article examines the questions: What are the proclaimed and hidden or implicit intentions of the government? What evidence is available to provide reasonable interpretation of government action according to a particular rationale? By triangulating primary and secondary data and using a dedu…
In the name of bringing services closer to the people? Explaining the creation of new local government districts in Uganda
Many governments in Africa and elsewhere in Asia and Latin America have created new local government (LG) jurisdictions as part of their decentralization policies. However, most decentralization studies have focused on fiscal, political and administrative assignments between levels of government. Much less attention has been given to the number and size of LG jurisdictions. Often, these are considered to be an accident of history, but the reality…
Managing Multiple Modalities of Delivering Basic Services in Ghanaian Cities
This paper analyses the capacity of three local governments (LGs) in Ghana to undertake new ways of solving public problems in basic infrastructure services. The paper argues that while LGs in Ghana have disengaged themselves in di rectly delivering public sanitation and solid waste (SSW) services to users and have pursued multiple modalities of public, private and community delivery, they have found themselves trying to manage complicated new re…
An unbreakable path? A comparative study of decentralization and local government development trajectories in Ghana and Uganda
The evolutionary theory of path dependency suggests that the longer an institution has been in place, the more resilient it is to change. Given enough time and self-reinforcing mechanisms, an organizational and institutional path develops and becomes highly resistant to change and likely to endure for a long time. Since the path benefits those who created it, the same actors cannot unlock it. Only an ‘exogenous shock’ (an event outside the path) …
Building new competencies for government administrators and managers in an era of public sector reforms
African public administration today is mixed with elements of the old bureaucratic model continuing alongside the new public management (NPM). The increasing application of the NPM approach has placed public administration and management systems in the spotlight and raised a number of challenges. Among them are the relevance of policy importation and the availability of civil servants with the requisite competence to perform the very critical res…
An unbreakable path? A comparative study of decentralization and local government development trajectories in Ghana and Uganda
The evolutionary theory of path dependency suggests that the longer an institution has been in place, the more resilient it is to change. Given enough time and self-reinforcing mechanisms, an organizational and institutional path develops and becomes highly resistant to change and likely to endure for a long time. Since the path benefits those who created it, the same actors cannot unlock it. Only an ‘exogenous shock’ (an event outside the path) …
Building new competencies for government administrators and managers in an era of public sector reforms
African public administration today is mixed with elements of the old bureaucratic model continuing alongside the new public management (NPM). The increasing application of the NPM approach has placed public administration and management systems in the spotlight and raised a number of challenges. Among them are the relevance of policy importation and the availability of civil servants with the requisite competence to perform the very critical res…
In the name of bringing services closer to the people? Explaining the creation of new local government districts in Uganda
Many governments in Africa and elsewhere in Asia and Latin America have created new local government (LG) jurisdictions as part of their decentralization policies. However, most decentralization studies have focused on fiscal, political and administrative assignments between levels of government. Much less attention has been given to the number and size of LG jurisdictions. Often, these are considered to be an accident of history, but the reality…
Building new competencies for government administrators and managers in an era of public sector reforms
African public administration today is mixed with elements of the old bureaucratic model continuing alongside the new public management (NPM). The increasing application of the NPM approach has placed public administration and management systems in the spotlight and raised a number of challenges. Among them are the relevance of policy importation and the availability of civil servants with the requisite competence to perform the very critical res…
Managing Multiple Modalities of Delivering Basic Services in Ghanaian Cities
This paper analyses the capacity of three local governments (LGs) in Ghana to undertake new ways of solving public problems in basic infrastructure services. The paper argues that while LGs in Ghana have disengaged themselves in di rectly delivering public sanitation and solid waste (SSW) services to users and have pursued multiple modalities of public, private and community delivery, they have found themselves trying to manage complicated new re…
An unbreakable path? A comparative study of decentralization and local government development trajectories in Ghana and Uganda
The evolutionary theory of path dependency suggests that the longer an institution has been in place, the more resilient it is to change. Given enough time and self-reinforcing mechanisms, an organizational and institutional path develops and becomes highly resistant to change and likely to endure for a long time. Since the path benefits those who created it, the same actors cannot unlock it. Only an ‘exogenous shock’ (an event outside the path) …
Behind the façade of bringing services closer to people The proclaimed and hidden intentions of the government of Uganda to create many new local government districts
Creation of local government districts has become an enterprise in Uganda, with many stakeholders having diverse opinions about the government's motives. This article examines the questions: What are the proclaimed and hidden or implicit intentions of the government? What evidence is available to provide reasonable interpretation of government action according to a particular rationale? By triangulating primary and secondary data and using a dedu…
In the name of bringing services closer to the people? Explaining the creation of new local government districts in Uganda
Many governments in Africa and elsewhere in Asia and Latin America have created new local government (LG) jurisdictions as part of their decentralization policies. However, most decentralization studies have focused on fiscal, political and administrative assignments between levels of government. Much less attention has been given to the number and size of LG jurisdictions. Often, these are considered to be an accident of history, but the reality…
Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals
Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Government (linguistics (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Local government (3 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (3 works) · Politics (3 works)